Hair rooter



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HAIR ROUTER, 'KNITTBR, AND HAOKLE. NO. 281,834. Patented July 24, 1883.

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MARK CAMPBELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAIR ROOTER, KNITTER, AND HACKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,834, dated July 24, 1883,

Application filed November '29, 1882.

T0 at whom, it may concern Be it known that 1, MARK CAMPBELL, citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and usefullmprovement in a Hair Rooter, Knitter, and Hackle Combined, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in hackles for combing hair and for rooting and knitting the same, in'which one or more rows .of needles or pins, placed side by side, and

held in position by means of strips of wood, metal, or other suitable substance acted upon by set-screws are used; and the objects of my improvements are, first, to provide an implement by the use of which hair combed from the head or otherwise obtained can be manipulated in such a manner that all of its roots shall be placed inone direction; second, to so construct said implement that hair which may have upon it nits may have the same removed by the use of two or more rows of needles or pins held in asuitable box or frame. I attain these objects by the use of the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whicl1-- Figure I is a perspectwe view of my improved implement as used for hackling or combing hair, it showing a case for the reception of the other parts, rows of needles or pins for doing the combing, strips for holding the needles in position, and set-screws for pressing upon said strips. Fig. 2 is a transverse section, showing the parts above enumerated. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one form of strips or plates for the reception of the needles, and Fig. 4 is a perspective View of an equivalent form of plate.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in all of the figures.

In constructing implements of this type I use a box or case, A, which may be made of iron or of any other suitable substance, it having a recess formed in it for the reception of strips or plates for holding the needles in position, said plates being made of wood, metal, rubber,

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leather, or any other suitable substance, they being, when in use, placed in the recess formed in the case A and forced upon the needles by means of setscrews A, which pass through the sides of said case.

XV hen this implement is to be used for knitting hair, two rows of needles are used, the lower ends of which rest upon the bottom of the slots formed in the plate B; or, if preferred, plates of the proper length and thickness may be used without slots in them, they being placed outsideof and between the needles, which, in that case, will extend down to and rest upon the lower plate of case A.

\Vhen using the implement as a hackle, as above described, I prefer to make in the surfaces of the plates which come in contact with the needles segmental recesses B B, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, for the purpose of maintaining the needles 0 C at the proper distances from each othersay one-eighth of an inch, more or less.

When the implement is used for rooting hair-z. (3., so manipulating it that all of the roots shall be at one end of the mass, which is desirable when treating hair to be made into articles to be worn upon the persononly one row of needles or pins is to be used, and they are to be placed close together, in which case the segmental recesses in the dividing-plates may be dispensed with, and only such plates used as will press upon the greatest diameter of the needles from the bottom of the recess in the case to its upper surface.

WVhen the implement is to be used as a hackle or comb, any number of rows of needles or pins may be used, from two upward, and they may be arranged vertically, as shown, or they may be set at an angle to the face of the case, and this arrangement may be observed whatever use the implement is to be applied to. The case A is supplied at its ends or upon its sides with holes for the passage of screws or bolts for securing it to any support,

such as a table or bench, and if preferred, the bottom plate of said case may be dispensed with, and the needles or pins and dividingplates be allowed to rest upon such support.

Having thus described my invention, what I of the shoulderedends of needles,with case A, 10 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, formed as described, and the set-screws A,

issubstantially as shown and specified.

In an implement for knitting and rooting In testimony whereof I affix my signature inhair, the combination of a series of plates havpresence of two witnesses. ing longitudinal slots formed in their outer MARK CAMPBELL. edges, the inner walls of said slots having Ver- \Vitnesses: tical recesses arranged equidistant and oppo- L. H. PAGE,

site each other for the reception and retention J F. IVIARSHALL. 

